Bovet this year has made major headlines in 2021 with the announcement of its collaboration with Rolls-Royce and the subsequent release of a bespoke, dashboard mounted timepieces. Then, not two months after that captivating announcement, the maison returned to its stock-in-trade of producing luxurious, horologically complex mechanisms for the wrist with the release of the Virtuoso VIII Chapter Two Reimagined DLC-SLN.

This year, as part of the WatchTime New York 2021 taking place October 22 to 24 at Manhattan?s Gotham Hall, the esteemed, Fleurier-based maison will showcase the second of these releases, placing this haute horlogerie creation in full view of a connoissieur crowd for perhaps the first time.

For background, the Virtuoso VIII Chapter Two Reimagined DLC-SLN revisits Bovet?s original Virtuoso VIII Chapter Two tourbillon, launched in 2020, with the goal of bringing its design into a sportier and more contemporary context. Overall, it speaks to a growing effort by Bovet to expand into even more interesting areas of materials, colors, treatments, and displays, and hence to grow its base of prospective customers.
The launch comprises six new colorways, each limited to eight total examples. They include yellow, blue, salmon, turquoise, green, and violet options; the salmon and blue editions are pictured here. Each of the colorways features a heavy use of Super-LumiNova on the dial, allowing the otherwise very traditional-looking design to surprise ...